Shaoling Ma: What Do Media Do?
Shaoling Ma’s talk “What Do Media Do? The ‘Case’ of Late Qing China, 1861–1906,” drew on her recent book, The Stone and the Wireless, Mediating China 1861-1906.
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Allen Riddell: Every Victorian Novel
Allen Riddell’s talk, “Every Victorian Novel: Dispatches from Data-Intensive Book History,” reviewed three recent contributions to the history of fiction publishing in the British Isles and Ireland during the 19th century.
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Radical Futures Symposium
The Radical Futures symposium, which took place on March 20-21, 2021, brought together researchers from Germany and the US to discuss both the future of media and form(at)s of imagination/imaginaries in the 21st century.
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Dec
1
Reading Group: The Practical Renaissance9:30am
Reading Group: The Practical Renaissance
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Storrs Campus UCHI Conference Room / Virtual
The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. Participants benefit from encountering field-specific approaches and methodologies different from those they know, and from having to articulate their own field’s methodologies to others. In addition to discussing the content and arguments of each given monograph, we attempt to break down how individual texts are constructed so as to keep a running dialogue about conceptualizing, composing, and eventually publishing relevant and persuasive research in the field. -
Dec
8
Transcribathon9:30am
Transcribathon
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Storrs Campus Online
“Transcribathon” describes the full range of the Early Modern Studies Working Group’s efforts to teach and develop the skills of paleography. UConn’s Transcribathon convenes bi-weekly and aims to make the experience fun and rewarding by providing participants an opportunity both to collaborate on a community project, and to receive useful research training for projects that require paleography.
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https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/j/6384107227?pwd=RXcrR1ZaZnl5R3ZuVEhtYXAzWmptQT09 -
Dec
8
The Museum as “Social Instrument” and Storyteller: WWII and Now 12:30pm
The Museum as “Social Instrument” and Storyteller: WWII and Now
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
The economic and human challenges of the Great Depression prompted U.S. museums to re-evaluate their duties to the public. In answer, some practitioners in the 1930s and ‘40s championed the vision of the museum as a “social instrument” for democracy. Such a museum engaged with contemporary issues and incorporated new modes of immersive, storytelling into topical exhibitions to inspire museumgoers to take informed action on civic matters. This talk, based on Ceglio’s new book, "A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums", connects this history to present-day efforts by museums to harness the power of storytelling and become agents for social change.
Held in conjunction with the 2022 Digital Media and Design Faculty Exhibition.
Clarissa J. Ceglio is a U.S. cultural historian and Associate Professor of digital humanities in the Digital Media and Design Department at the UConn Storrs campus. Her research focuses on the roles that physical and digital artifacts play in constructing national and social imaginaries within the context of museum work, past and present. -
Dec
14
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Kareem Khalifa3:30pm
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Kareem Khalifa
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Conference Room
Research talk by Kareem Khalifa with response by Heather Cassano.
"How Value-Laden are Segregation Indices?"
